Description

The Mysterious Rider is a 1938 American Western (genre) film directed by Lesley Selander and starring Douglass Dumbrille, Sidney Toler, and Russell Hayden. Written by Maurice Geraghty based on the 1921 novel The Mysterious Rider by Zane Gray, the film is about a notorious outlaw who returns to the ranch he once owned and takes a job disguised as a ranch hand. Unrecognized by the ranch’s current owner, he waits patiently for an opportunity to expose the men who murdered his partner twenty years ago, framed him for the crime, and then stole his ranch.

Cast

• Douglass Dumbrille as Pecos Bill/ Ben Wade
• Sidney Toler as Frosty Kilburn
• Russell Hayden as Wils Moore
• Stanley Andrews as William Bellounds
• Charlotte Field as Collie Wade
• Weldon Heyburn as Jack Bellounds
• Monte Blue as Cap Folsom
• Earl Dwire as Sheriff Burley
• Glenn Strange as Henchman Cramer
• Jack Rockwell as Lem
• Leo J. McMahon as Cowhand Montana
• Arch Hall Sr. as Rancher Andrews